MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF EXTREMOPHILES / Debamitra Chakravorty, Ashwinee Kumar Shreshtha, V.R. Sarath Babu, and Sanjukta Patra -- ATTAINING EXTREMOPHILES AND EXTREMOLYTES : METHODOLOGIES AND LIMITATIONS / Debamitra Chakravorty and Sanjukta Patra -- STRATEGIES FOR THE ISOLATION AND CULTIVATION OF HALOPHILIC MICROORGANISMS / Aharon Oren -- HALOPHILIC PROPERTIES AND THEIR MANIPULATION AND APPLICATION / Tsutomu Arakawa, Hiroko Tokunaga, Matsujiro Ishibashi, and Masao Tokunaga -- FEATURES AND APPLICATIONS OF HALOPHILIC ARCHAEA / Ximena C. Abrevaya -- BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF COLD-ADAPTED BACTERIA / Laura Garcia-Descalzo, Alberto Alcazar, Fernando Baquero, and Cristina Cid -- ECOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY OF EXTREMOPHILIC MICROORGANISMS, PARTICULARLY ANAEROBIC HERMOPHILES / Francesco Canganella -- THE ROLE OF EXTREMOPHILIC MICROORGANISMS AND THEIR BIOPRODUCTS IN FOOD PROCESSING AND PRODUCTION / Jane A. Irwin -- EXTREMOPHILES AND THEIR APPLICATION TO BIOFUEL RESEARCH / M.P. Taylor, R. Bauer, S. Mackay, M. Tuffin, and D.A. Cowan -- SUSTAINABLE ROLE OF THERMOPHILES IN THE SECOND GENERATION OF ETHANOL PRODUCTION / Anuj K. Chandel, Ellen C. Giese, Om V. Singh, and Silvio Silverio da Silva -- ECOFRIENDLY ASPECTS OF THE USE OF EXTREMOPHILIC ENZYMES IN TEXTILE SUBSTRATES / Bipin J. Agrawal and Sandhya Mishra -- THE USE OF EXTREMOPHILIC MICROORGANISMS IN THE INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY OF METALS / Carlos A. Jerez -- BACTERIAL POLYMERS PRODUCED BY EXTREMOPHILES: BIOSYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND APPLICATIONS OF EXOPOLYSACCHARIDES / Nicolaus Barbara, Anzelmo Gianluca, and Poli Annarita -- BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF EXOPOLYSACCHARIDES PRODUCED BY MICROORGANISMS ISOLATED FROM EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS / Ignacio J. Molina, Carmen Ruiz-Ruiz, Emilia Quesada, and Victoria Béjar -- BIOSYNTHESIS OF EXTREMOLYTES : RADIATION RESISTANCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS / Erin Copeland, Nicholas Choy, Prashant Gabani, and Om V. Singh -- SMART THERAPEUTICS FROM EXTREMOPHILES : UNEXPLORED APPLICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES / Raj Kumar and Ajeet Singh.